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SUNY Potsdam Institutional Repository (SPIRe) provides a secure and
searchable digital archive to showcase and preserve the intellectual and creative accomplishments of our College. This initiative takes advantage of the SUNY Digital Repository using the open source system DSpace, and operates under the leadership of the College Libraries. SPIRe provides opportunity for College departments and offices and individual faculty members to make their research and creative endeavors, including significant work of students, available to a broader audience. SPIRe also enhances the College community’s understanding of digital access and preservation issues.

Debate over what influenced Roman city plans has permeated the scholarly community
for decades. One hypothesis, with which I am in agreement, is that it was the Roman
castra, or military camps, that provided a source for ...

Parental involvement has been shown to be an important part of a student’s life. In our study and research, we found that the amount of participation that parent’s [sic] give can drastically improve a child’s social and ...

The Bernstein legacy defies description, classification and categorization, not surprisingly unlike Bernstein himself. It is an evolving entity which continues to exert influence on the world despite the fact that Leonard ...

One of the reasons why Samuel Johnson achieved his monumentality in literary history is that he was a comprehensive thinker whose treatment of social, political, and literary domains encompassed a wide range of concerns ...

The overwintering habitat of Blanding’s turtles, a threatened species in Northern New York, is largely unknown. It is also unknown whether all age and sex classes of these turtles select similar habitats or make periodic ...

Iron is a metal essential to life and is necessary for a wide variety of metabolic purposes. Transferrin is a naturally occurring metal chelating protein responsible for the transport and donation of iron. My goal is to ...

At its height in the early 1840s, the Mormon metropolis of Nauvoo, Illinois boasted a population of nearly 12,000, rivaling Chicago as the state’s largest city. After the Mormons were forcefully exiled from the place in ...

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a disease which affects white-tailed deer and elk in both wild and captive populations. In 2002 the Department of Environmental Conservation observed that CWD could possibly spread to New ...

The media impacts many students in today’s world. A common theme across literature is that the media makes a significant impression upon children. Children make associations from the media, sometimes correct, and sometimes ...

Writing and teaching have this in common – popular images of each foreground isolation and art and obscure community and craft. These images play a role in shaping writing instruction in the public schools, particularly ...

The tradition of folk music can benefit any level of string teaching with its accessibility, culture, and intriguing history. All around the world, folk music is passed down through generations by rote, or without written ...

The importance of iron in living systems cannot be overestimated. If iron is not
managed efficiently, the aftermath could be catastrophic. My research project focused
on understanding the structure and function of a major ...